Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.

Googie Withers
as Anne Stirling

John McCallum
as Mitch Gillis

Bill Kerr
as Dinty Missouri

Joan Hickson
as Rosalie Watchett

Wendy Danielli
as Daphne Stirling

Hugh Pryse
as Skinner

Alexander Gauge
as Inspector Levins

Ewan Roberts
as Sergeant Rutherford

Gerald Andersen
as Det. Sgt. Shafto (as Gerald Anderson)

Basil Dignam
as Det. Sgt. Crawford